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Setback for efforts to save Nimisha Priya from execution in Yemen as victim’s family refuses pardon

A person convicted of murder in Yemen can be spared execution if all legal heirs of the victim agree to grant pardon, usually in exchange for blood money, according to Sharia law.

BJP MP Jangra of nurses row once called ‘torn jeans Europe’s garbage, agitating farmers lazy’

Nurses’ outfits have taken exception to BJP MP Ram Chander Jangra’s ‘misogynist sense of humour’ in Parliament, formal complaint lodged with Haryana State Commission for Women.

Bombay HC slams Maharashtra govt for denying compensation in nurse’s Covid-19 death case

The court was hearing a petition by Sudhakar Pawar challenging the November 2023 order passed by the govt rejecting his application seeking Rs 50 lakh compensation over his wife's death.

Appeal rejected, Indian nurse on death row in Yemen has 2 options: President’s pardon or ‘blood money’

Yemen SC rejected Nimisha Priya's appeal against death sentence in murder case. Her mother wants to negotiate blood money to ensure her release, but there's a ban on Indians traveling to Yemen.

UK nurse Lucy Letby, who killed 7 newborn babies, jailed for rest of her life

Letby murdered 5 boys and 2 girls at a hospital in northern England where she was working in 2015 & 2016, injecting the infants with insulin or air or force feeding them milk.

‘The ICU is full’: Hospitals are ‘overwhelmed’ as China battles worst Covid outbreak since 2020

Resources are already stretched to the breaking point in many hospitals in the country, as Covid-19 & sickness levels amongst staff have been particularly high, said medical staff.

Creches, 40-hour work week — how Modi govt wants to improve nurses’ working conditions

Health ministry releases draft guidelines to improve working conditions of nurses, invites comments from public and stakeholders over the next one month.

Nursing courses see Covid boom, 99% of BSc seats taken in 2020-21, 91% in diploma

Even so, India has been facing acute shortage of nurses, with top hospitals reporting attrition rate of as high as 40%, as better pay and working conditions make nurses opt for jobs abroad. 

Govt moves to address shortage of nurses, likely to permit foreign graduates to work in India

India has about 1.7 trained nurses per 1,000 people, against WHO norm of 4. Poor working conditions and pay seen as topmost reasons for their annual exodus from India.

Govt health officials don’t last more than 14-15 months in key posts, shows NITI Aayog report

Tenures of 3 key state-level officials — principal secretary, mission director (National Health Mission), and director (health services) — were less than 24 months in most states.

On Camera

Was India’s public sector born out of European envy?

For all its obvious blemishes, capitalism alone holds out the most creative and dynamic force that any civilization has ever discovered, wrote BP Godrej in 1980.

Market regulator SEBI clears Adani Group of impropriety alleged by Hindenburg Research

SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.

2 Assam Rifles personnel killed as convoy ambushed in Manipur, on ‘same route Modi took’ fortnight ago

This is the first major attack on central security forces since last November, when a CRPF jawan was killed and four were injured in an ambush in Jiribam on Manipur-Assam border. 

India doesn’t give walkovers to Pakistan in war. Here’s why it shouldn’t do it in cricket either

Many really smart people now share the position that playing cricket with Pakistan is politically, strategically and morally wrong. It is just a poor appreciation of competitive sport.